About the Role: The Massachusetts Veterans Home at Chelsea is seeking an experienced Director of Facilities to oversee operations across its 17-acre campus, which includes 11 buildings totaling approximately 500,000 square feet. This role is responsible for ensuring a safe, compliant, and well-maintained environment that supports high-quality care for our veteran residents.
Major Responsibility Areas: - - Effectively manage department programs while demonstrating fiscal responsibility and control over spending.
- - Ensure effective controls over campus Facilities and interdepartmental/interagency collaboration.
- - Ensure life safety functions of the Facility are effectively managed, have appropriate backup, and are in good working order while maintaining compliance with VA, DPH, and CMS standards, including an accurate Statement of Conditions document that demonstrates all fire safety and other environmental compliance and lists deficiencies and corrective action plans with timelines for completion.
- - Conduct contract negotiations, oversee the bidding process, and function as Clerk of the Works for capital projects to ensure timely and satisfactory delivery of contractor services.
- - Implement 5-year capital and equipment plans to maintain the environment of care and support modernization/renovation of patient care areas, utilizing Facilities staff to minimize costs.
- - Represent the Veterans Home at interagency meetings with the Division of Capital Planning (DCP) related to the appropriation and allotment of capital funding for repairs and maintenance to its campus.
- - Serve as a Member of the Executive Committee and a Member of the Environment of Care Committee.
- - Provide professional growth and career advancement within the Facilities Division through attendance at in-service education, professional development seminars, and mandated training programs.
Qualifications:MINIMUM ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Applicants must have at least (A) five (5) years of full-time or, equivalent part-time, professional, administrative, supervisory, or managerial experience in business administration, business management, public administration, public management, clinical administration or clinical management of which (B) at least one (1) year must have been in a project management, supervisory or managerial capacity or (C) any equivalent combination of the required experience and substitutions below.
Substitutions:
I. A certificate in a relevant or related field may be substituted for one (1) year of the required (A) experience.
II. A Bachelor's degree in a related field may be substituted for two (2) years of the required (A) experience.
III. A Graduate degree in a related field may be substituted for three (3) years of the required (A) experience.
IV. A Doctorate degree in a related field may be substituted for four (4) years of the required (A) experience.
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A criminal background check will be completed on the recommended candidate as required by the regulations set forth by the Executive Office of Health and Human Services prior to the candidate being hired. For more information, please visit http://www.mass.gov/hhs/cori
Education, licensure and certifications will be verified in accordance with the Human Resources Division's Hiring Guidelines.
Education and license/certification information provided by the selected candidate(s) is subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law and may be published on the Commonwealth's website.
COVID Vaccine: As a condition of employment, depending on job assignment and location, employees may be required to have received COVID-19 vaccination and/or other vaccinations, or to have been approved for a vaccination exemption prior to their start date. Details relating to demonstrating compliance with this requirement will be provided to applicants selected for employment.
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First consideration will be given to those applicants that apply within the first 14 days. 
